Lasisi Olagunju
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Guest Columnist
Ofala: Glo and an invite from Agbogidi, By Lasisi Olagunju
‘Teacher of Light’ is the title of a biography of Chinua Achebe written by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Tijan Sallah. What…
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‘Federal Highways of Horror’, By Lasisi Olagunju
You know where the latest anti-government journalists are in Lagos? Kirikiri. On a day that Nigerians were celebrating an additional…
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Generals, Marabouts and Boko Haram, By Lasisi Olagunju
General Lucky Irabor wrote a book that attracted a gathering of Generals in Abuja last Friday. Irabor, in the book,…
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Hobbes, Nigeria, and Sarkozy, By Lasisi Olagunju
In the early 1940s, Sir Ahmadu Bello, the hugely popular Sardauna of Sokoto, found himself at a crossroads of politics…
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Dangote’s oily wars, By Lasisi Olagunju
In February 2025, Daily Trust quoted him as saying: “I’ve been fighting battles all my life and I have not…
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Every democracy ‘murders itself’, By Lasisi Olagunju
In ‘Jokes and Targets’ by Christie Davies, a Soviet journalist interviews a Chukchi man: “Could you tell us briefly how…
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HID Awolowo and the Yoruba woman, By Lasisi Olagunju
I was an undergraduate in Ife on Friday, 23 January, 1987 when the statue of Oduduwa was commissioned at the…
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Inside Nigeria
On El-Rufai, Aláròká and terrorists, By Lasisi Olagunju
Why did Bola Tinubu offend Nasir El-Rufai? He should have kept him. There are three principalities the Yoruba dread to…
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On El-Rufai, Aláròká and terrorists, By Lasisi Olagunju
Why did Bola Tinubu offend Nasir El-Rufai? He should have kept him. There are three principalities the Yoruba dread to…
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